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title: "Export Dashboard"
description: "Learn how to export your OpenLIT dashboards for backup, sharing, and migration across different environments."
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## What is it?

Dashboard export allows you to save your dashboard configurations as JSON files, preserving all widgets, layouts, queries, and settings. This is essential for:

- **Backup & Recovery**: Create backup copies of important dashboards
- **Team Sharing**: Share proven monitoring setups with team members
- **Environment Migration**: Move dashboards between dev, staging, and production
- **Template Creation**: Build reusable dashboard templates for common use cases

<Steps titleSize="h4">
  <Step title="Navigate to dashboards">
    Go to your Dashboards Explorer and locate the dashboard you want to export.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Access export menu">
    <Frame>
        <img src="/images/dashboard-export.png" />
    </Frame>
    1. Click the **three dots (⋯)** menu icon next to your dashboard name to open the context menu.
    1. From the dropdown menu, select **Export Layout**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Download your dashboard">
    OpenLIT will automatically generate and download a JSON file containing your complete dashboard configuration.

    The downloaded file will be named after your dashboard (e.g., `llm-dashboard.json`) and saved to your default download location.
  </Step>
</Steps>